Department of Management Information Systems User Guide for Student’s Course Management System University of Dhaka Department of Management Information Systems Student’s Course Management System User Guide Document Version: 1.0.12.20 Developed by: Promiti Computers & Network (Pvt.) Ltd. Copyright © Department of Management Information Systems – University of Dhaka, 2012 _____________________________________________________________________________________ Developed by Promiti Computers & Network (Pvt.) Ltd. 1 Department of Management Information Systems User Guide for Student’s Course Management System Table of Contents About This Document Conventions used in this document Chapter 1 1 Starting the System 1.1 The Department of Management Information System’s Website and Student’s Course Management System 1.2 Before you start Chapter 2 2 Login Information 2.1 Log on to the Software 2.2 Logging Out Chapter 3 3 Student’s Profile 3.1 My Profile 3.2 Edit Profile Chapter 4 4 Course Intake 4.1 Course Offer & Class Schedule 4.2 Course Taken 4.3 Change Course Intake _____________________________________________________________________________________ Developed by Promiti Computers & Network (Pvt.) Ltd. 2 Department of Management Information Systems User Guide for Student’s Course Management System About this Document The Online Student’s Course Management System will ensure its accuracy and fulfill all requirements of the system if the user handles the system properly. This manual is prepared for helping the user to operate the system. In order to work with the system, the user must follow the steps. The document is divided into the following chapters: Chapter Description Starting the System This chapter gives a demonstration of Student’s Course Management System and its basic functionalities. This chapter gives a demonstration of the login to the system. Login Information Student’s Profile Course Intake This chapter gives a demonstration of updating the personal profile. This chapter gives a demonstration of taking courses in a semester and other functionalities. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Developed by Promiti Computers & Network (Pvt.) Ltd. 3 Department of Management Information Systems User Guide for Student’s Course Management System Conventions Used in this Document We use the following text formatting conventions: Calibri Used for marking chapter title. Bold Used for marking quick direction, chapter number. Bold Italic Used for marking module title, module heading. Bold Used for marking module sub heading. Italic Used for marking module features and functions. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Developed by Promiti Computers & Network (Pvt.) Ltd. 4 Department of Management Information Systems User Guide for Student’s Course Management System Chapter 1 1 Starting the System 1.1 The Department of Management Information System’s Website and Student’s Course Management System The Student’s Course Management System is a web-based application for University of Dhaka, Department of Management Information Systems (MIS) to manage the student’s course intake and other academic functionalities during his/her academic duration and several semesters. To start the Department of Management Information System’s Website and Student’s Course Management System, student have to open an internet browser such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera or Google Chrome (as shown Figure – A) and has to type http://mis.univdhaka.edu/ in the address bar and click on go button or has to press ‘Enter’ key on keyboard and then there will appear the website landing screen (as shown Figure – B). Figure A: Internet Browser with the URL http://mis.univdhaka.edu/ Figure B: The website landing screen _____________________________________________________________________________________ Developed by Promiti Computers & Network (Pvt.) Ltd. 5 Department of Management Information Systems User Guide for Student’s Course Management System 1.2 Before you start If you are a first time enrolled student you have to collect your login credentials from department’s office. If you have any detail query on department’s website or Course Management System submit your query with required information on Contact > Submit a Query. Department/Authority will reply on your specific issue at earliest possible time. If you are facing any technical problem to surf the website or application makes a note at info@mis.univdhaka.edu or sakib@promiti.com. 1 2 3 Figure C: Landing Screen Detail of Department’s Website 1. Header: In this user interface section system will show the header of the system. Also main navigation menu will be displayed. 2. Login Button: Login Panel link to switch over the website to application system. 3. News Section: In this section recent news/updates related to department will be displayed. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Developed by Promiti Computers & Network (Pvt.) Ltd. 6 Department of Management Information Systems User Guide for Student’s Course Management System Chapter 2 2 Login Information 2.1 Log on to the System As of the Student’s Course Management System is a web-based application for department students/faculty/office and contains privileged information, it was covered by a secured access control library. It will ensure unauthorized access of attackers to login or phishing the system content or information and deliver the relevant information of authorized logged in users. To log on the system navigate the ‘Login’ button from the top menu (as shown on Figure – C) and you will got the login screen of Student’s Course Management System (as shown on Figure – D). Figure D: Login Screen Provide you login credentials as username and password and click on ‘Submit’ button. The access control library (ACL) will authenticate you and identify your roles and operational rules and will be redirected to your relevant landing page. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Developed by Promiti Computers & Network (Pvt.) Ltd. 7 Department of Management Information Systems User Guide for Student’s Course Management System 2.2 Student’s Landing Page & Log out After logging into the Course Management System as a Student, system will redirect you to the landing page of student portal (as shown on Figure – E). From the top menu student will get the system operations. To logging out from the system click on the ‘Logout’ button from the right corner of top menu and system will process your log out request, saves your back-track information and send back to you at the website landing page (as shown on Figure – B). Figure E: Student Portal Landing Page If you are an enrolled student of Department of Management Information Systems you will be redirected upon successful login to the ‘Student Portal Landing Page’ (as shown on Figure – E). From this module you can access the several part of student’s module options. The components under ‘Student’ menu (as shown on Figure – E) are: a. My Profile b. Course Intake If you forgot your password please make a note at info@mis.univdhaka.edu or sakib@promiti.com to retrieve your respective username and password with prior approval of your department. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Developed by Promiti Computers & Network (Pvt.) Ltd. 8 Department of Management Information Systems User Guide for Student’s Course Management System Chapter 3 3 Student’s Profile 3.1 My Profile Figure F: My Profile To view your personal profile navigate ‘Student > My Profile’ from the top menu (as shown on Figure – E). This will redirect you to the sub-module page of My Profile (as shown on Figure – F). When you have enrolled as a student under Department of Management Information Systems, some basic information has been entered by authority as prerequisite (i.e. Name, Department, Program, Session, Batch, Semester, Registration ID, Gender etc.). _____________________________________________________________________________________ Developed by Promiti Computers & Network (Pvt.) Ltd. 9 Department of Management Information Systems User Guide for Student’s Course Management System 3.2 Edit Profile To edit/update your profile navigate to the link ‘Edit Profile’ at the bottom of ‘My Profile’ (as shown on Figure – F). Figure G: Edit Profile Here a panel of updating your profile will be appeared with the prerequisite information saved by department. Note that every field in this panel marked with red asterisk (*) are mandatory field to provide information while updating your profile (as shown on Figure – G). After making changes on information, confirm your action by checking ‘Confirm’ box and click on ‘Save’ button. Without conforming the action system will not enable the ‘Save’ button. You can quit this panel without making any changes by clicking ‘Cancel’ link (as shown on Figure – G). After saving changes system will redirect you to ‘My Profile’ page (as shown on Figure – F). _____________________________________________________________________________________ Developed by Promiti Computers & Network (Pvt.) Ltd. 10 Department of Management Information Systems User Guide for Student’s Course Management System Chapter 4 4 Course Intake 4.1 Course Offer & Class Schedule Figure H: Course Offer & Class Schedule Screen If you did not chosen your courses for this semester system will present a course offer list along with class schedule details on ‘Course Intake’ page (as shown on Figure – H) navigating from top menu ‘Student > Course Intake’ (as shown on Figure – E). You have to choose minimum 2 (two) courses and maximum 4 (four) courses from this panel. This screen will serve the courses as per allocation of per courses decided by department/authority and should be taken ‘First Come, First Take’ basis. If some course options are disabled, it means that courses are already taken by several students equivalent of course allocation. Courses in a same class day/class time can’t be taken. After setting the course choices, confirm your action by checking ‘Confirm’ box and click on ‘Save’ button. Without conforming the action system will not enable the ‘Save’ button. Please note that, once you have submitted your course choices you can’t make any operation without approval of department/authority. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Developed by Promiti Computers & Network (Pvt.) Ltd. 11 Department of Management Information Systems User Guide for Student’s Course Management System 4.2 Course Taken Figure I-1: Course Taken Screen Once you have submitted your chosen courses, system will redirect you to the ‘Course Taken’ screen with class schedule. In the right-most column of ‘Course Taken’ table – ‘Operation/Approval’ will show the current status of your course intake for this semester (as shown on Figure – I). ‘Yellow’ icon represents courses are not approved yet by department/authority; ‘Green’ icon stands for approved courses and ‘Red’ icons represent the course intake are rejected by department/authority. Note that, department/authority saves the right to accept/reject any course option chosen by any student without any clarification. Department/authority will make decision/advise on student course intake after expiration of course offer date. Figure I-2: Course Taken Screen _____________________________________________________________________________________ Developed by Promiti Computers & Network (Pvt.) Ltd. 12 Department of Management Information Systems User Guide for Student’s Course Management System 4.3 Change Course Intake Figure J: Change Course Intake Screen If one or more courses are rejected by department/authority with prior advice system will deliver the list of taken course with approval status icon (as shown on Figure – I-2). You will find and option to change course intake for the specific rejected course by clicking on ‘Red’ icon right to the course name. It will present a screen of changing courses like course offer screen with selected course that already approved by department/authority (as shown on Figure – J). To make changes on course just choose only one courses and ‘Save’ with conforming your action. This will change your course intake and set the status of your newly taken courses as pending for approval with ‘Yellow’ icon (as shown on Figure – K-1). Department/authority will make decision/advise on student course intake after expiration of course offer date. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Developed by Promiti Computers & Network (Pvt.) Ltd. 13 Department of Management Information Systems User Guide for Student’s Course Management System Figure K-1: Course Taken Screen Figure K-2: Course Taken Screen If all courses are approved by department/authority system will set the status of taken course as ‘Approved’ marked with ‘Green’ icon. In this screen you will also get the list of taken courses of previous semester (if available). -------------------------------------------------------_____________________________________________________________________________________ Developed by Promiti Computers & Network (Pvt.) Ltd. 14